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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it time for bash-3?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:18:04
Message-Id: 20061014012040.215f8f4c@sheridan.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it time for bash-3? by Vlastimil Babka
1 On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:50:36 +0200
2 Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o> wrote:
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7 > Marius Mauch wrote:
8 > > In that case adding >=bash-3 to "system" isn't sufficient. I'll
9 > > leave the detailed explanation to Brian, but the only thing you can
10 > > rely on in the ebuild environment is what the used portage version
11 > > has in it's dep strings when it was merged.
12 >
13 > Isn't that true only for stuff in ebuild's global scope?
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15 Well, for stuff in functions not called in global scope you can rely on
16 the ebuild deps, but still not on the implicit "system" deps.
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19 > > Not that it has much practical relevance given the age of bash-3
20 > > and things depending on it (don't think anybody is still on bash-2),
21 > > but adding it to "system" wouldn't help those people.
22 >
23 > This reminded me of this bug [1] we once got about OSX having only
24 > 2.59, not sure if that still holds.
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26 Right, forgot about OSX being "special".
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28 Marius
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